Top Scholar, Your Wife's at It Again!

Qin Yu marries Zhang Qiong to pay back a meal. Three years earlier she had fed him, and now that he has placed first in the imperial examination he takes her as his wife. Zhang Qiong is known for miles around as a shrew. The marriage pulls both of them into a fight that could kill them, mixing a family quarrel with the politics of the court. Qin Yu has a gentle, frail look about him, and under it he is a covert agent of the throne, sent to look into the embezzlement of disaster relief funds. Zhang Qiong has a younger sister to protect and an uncle who is scheming to take the family's property, and she goes at him with her temper and her wits. Husband and wife end up working on both matters together, for the benefit of the common people.